Patterns of Brain Activation when Mothers View Their Own Child and Dog: An fMRI Study

• Luke E. Stoeckel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luke E. Stoeckel, Lori S. Palley

  * E-mail: lpalley@partners.org (LP); lstoeckel@mgh.harvard.edu (LES)

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lori S. Palley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luke E. Stoeckel, Lori S. Palley

  * E-mail: lpalley@partners.org (LP); lstoeckel@mgh.harvard.edu (LES)

  Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Randy L. Gollub,

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Steven M. Niemi,

  Affiliation Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Anne Eden Evins

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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